Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Laurent


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:27, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Laurent
No way to determine notability of subject. "Laurent" is a common French given name (equivalent to "Lawrence"). The first quote given returns only this page in Google. The second quote given is normally attributed to Chief Seattle. 121a0012 03:32, 14 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Vote closed. Result: delete (4 deletes, incl. 1 implicit; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:27, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. I was going to recommend "SD Unremarkable subject", as this really sounds like notes from a student whose native tongue is not English ("Englishlesson" implying a Germanic native tongue, "Chiefton" instead of "Chieftain", and the oddity of the "Saad" quote). But I couldn't resist a little multilingual searching. Given the French name, I dug up two French versions of this quote:
 * Ceci nous le savons, la terre n'appartient pas aux Êtres humains, ce sont les Êtres humains qui appartiennent À la terre.
 * [roughly] This we know: the Earth does not belong to human Beings; it is human Beings who belong to the Earth.
 * … a Terre n'appartient pas à l'Homme, l'Homme appartient à la Terre…
 * … the Earth doesn't belong to Man, Man belongs to the Earth…
 * The first was from a Canadian conservation project whose site no longer had the quote, and the second was from a discussion board. Neither said anything about "Laurent" or gave any attribution or source. I poked around fr:WP, de:WP, and de:WQ, but found nothing obvious. (fr:WQ is still shut down, of course.). The closest thing I found in Google was a mention of a Dr. Eugene C. Laurent, a member of the Environmental Commission of Trinidad and Tobago, but I found no quotes attached to this person. I'll let it go for now. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:24, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 13:30, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 23:56, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 02:35, 18 September 2006 (UTC)


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